Spaniards Use Gin, Bananas to Operate Car

Two Spaniards drove a car for three-fourths of a mile using gin for fuel and ripe bananas as lubricating oil.

Inventor Mariano Roldan Martinez and policeman Jose Luis Diaz want their exploit entered in the Guinness Book of Records.

About three gallons of gin and 44 pounds of bananas powered the drive Saturday in Spain’s African enclave of Ceuta on the Mediterranean coast, the official Moroccan news agency MAP said.